From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 20 18:22:59 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA22654 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 18:22:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wrath.cs.utah.edu (wrath.cs.utah.edu [155.99.198.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA22649 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 18:22:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danderse@cs.utah.edu) Received: from torrey.cs.utah.edu (torrey.cs.utah.edu [155.99.212.91]) by wrath.cs.utah.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA26664; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 19:21:42 -0700 (MST) Received: (from danderse@localhost) by torrey.cs.utah.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id TAA91556; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 19:21:41 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from danderse@cs.utah.edu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 19:21:41 -0700 (MST) From: "David G. Andersen" To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Jeremy Lea , Seth Leigh , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, lepreau@cs.utah.edu Subject: Re: Not so sinister. Was:(Re: Attempt to relicense BSD code under the GPL) In-Reply-To: Daniel C. Sobral's message of Wed, January 20 1999 <36A50F27.98B3FC7@newsguy.com> References: <19990119192936.D826@shale.csir.co.za> <36A50F27.98B3FC7@newsguy.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13990.36446.656181.63829@torrey.cs.utah.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lo and Behold, Daniel C. Sobral said: > > b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in > > whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any > > part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third > > parties under the terms of this License." > > "Packaging" things together is usually not perceived as being the > same as "contains". The BSD source is not "inside" the GPL source. > This is why FreeBSD can "package" GPL stuff together with our BSD > stuff. :-) And to expand upon what Daniel said a bit, it's important to consider one of the really neat things about the OSKit - that most of the code that's encapsulated is done so without modifying the original source at all. (Except bugfixes and such. We make a strong attempt to back-port all bugfixes to the original FreeBSD sources). If you look at the OSKit, then, it has this funky "freebsd/src" directory, which contains, virtually unmodified, all of the FreeBSD sources. The FreeBSD code isn't simply ripped out and glommed in to our own code (the stuff labeled with the GPL). The glue code which permits the various parts of the OSKit to interoperate was, however, written by the Utah folk. It's what makes the OSKit the OSKit, and not just some randomly created collection of sources. :-) -Dave [Oblig. disclaimer: I speak for myself, not for my employer. If you want a legal discussion of stuff in the oskit, you'll have to get Jay to pound on the legal folks at Utah for one. IANAL, thank god. :-] -- work: danderse@cs.utah.edu me: angio@pobox.com University of Utah http://www.angio.net/ Computer Science - Flux Research Group To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message